Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, wrote Night for several reasons. Heproclaims to have written it to not go mad ,or to go mad to understand such a gruesome experience. Elie wants to
leave behind something, memories a legacy to help prevent this tragedy from happening again. He also wants to expose the Nazis for the horrible things that they did, separating families, killing millions just because of
their religion and then the ability to walk among society like nothing happened. He also wants to apologize to his father. As he was in his last moments he called for him to help but Elie remained still fearing his life, not
comforting him watching, his father die. He wants to promote the glory and truth books and their purpose and why they were written. His finally reason was to the survivors who choose to testify, for the duty is clear,
to speak for the living and the dead. Elie Wiesel did not believe it was his destiny to survive and write this book he believes he lived by chance and felt that it was his duty to write it. To inform the world what happened
at Auchwitz.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
The censored music, books and the radios
They burned books that didn’t agree with Nazi veiws.
They sold cheap radios and broadcasted Hilters speeches in the streets.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
It happened on November 9–10, 1938 it means “the night of broken glass”
Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Heinrich Himmler's top deputies; SS Major General Heinrich Müller, chief of RSHA Department IV (Gestapo), l Adolf Eichmann, chief of the RSHA Department IV B 4 (Jewish Affairs)were a few. They decided to kill all the jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
At labor camps you would be forced to make German war goods. You had a chance at survival. Death camps are self-explanatory. They were built for killing.
Many were gassed, shot or burned.
Hungarian Police
Angry, Mean Beating, Yelling, and Oppressing
Beating Jews like they were merely flies
The devils puppets
Screaming Pushing down a road of stone
Table of Contents
Warren S. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
A Gruesome Story
Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, wrote Night for several reasons. Heproclaims to have written it to not go mad ,or to go mad to understand such a gruesome experience. Elie wants to
leave behind something, memories a legacy to help prevent this tragedy from happening again. He also wants to expose the Nazis for the horrible things that they did, separating families, killing millions just because of
their religion and then the ability to walk among society like nothing happened. He also wants to apologize to his father. As he was in his last moments he called for him to help but Elie remained still fearing his life, not
comforting him watching, his father die. He wants to promote the glory and truth books and their purpose and why they were written. His finally reason was to the survivors who choose to testify, for the duty is clear,
to speak for the living and the dead. Elie Wiesel did not believe it was his destiny to survive and write this book he believes he lived by chance and felt that it was his duty to write it. To inform the world what happened
at Auchwitz.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
The censored music, books and the radios
They burned books that didn’t agree with Nazi veiws.
They sold cheap radios and broadcasted Hilters speeches in the streets.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Heinrich Himmler's top deputies; SS Major General Heinrich Müller, chief of RSHA Department IV (Gestapo), l Adolf Eichmann, chief of the RSHA Department IV B 4 (Jewish Affairs)were a few. They decided to kill all the jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
It was overcrowded and station was common. There was barley any medicine or housing It was a step up from the concentration camps.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Many were gassed, shot or burned.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
He killed himself.
They were 21 and they represented the Nazi party.
Following Orders.
Assignment 3:Images of Night
Hungarian Police
Hungarian Police
Angry, Mean Beating, Yelling, and Oppressing
Beating Jews like they were merely flies
The devils puppets
Screaming Pushing down a road of stone